Southern Literaturehttp://www.librarypoint.org/taxonomy/term/2491/0
enThe Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Weltyhttp://www.librarypoint.org/robber_bridegroom_welty
<div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/180">Virginia Johnson</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2680">Literary Fiction</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/492">Mississippi</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/1130">Folktales</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2255">18th century -- fiction</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2491">Southern Literature</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/28">LibraryPoint Blog</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2671">Shelf Life Blog</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.librarypoint.org/sites/librarypoint.org/files/imagecache/robber_bridegroom.jpg" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Eudora Welty, <a href="http://ipac.librarypoint.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=12856N9L556Y2.39702&amp;profile=remote&amp;source=%7E%21horizon&amp;view=subscriptionsummary&amp;uri=full=3100001%7E%2142834%7E%210&amp;ri=2&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;menu=search&amp;ipp=20&amp;spp=20&amp;staffonly=&amp;term=optimists+daughter&amp;index=.GW&amp;uin">a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer</a> hailing from Mississippi&rsquo;s Delta region, authored <a href="http://ipac.librarypoint.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=128N60L056083.39430&amp;menu=search&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;npp=10&amp;ipp=20&amp;spp=20&amp;profile=remote&amp;ri=&amp;index=.GW&amp;term=robber+bridegroom+welty&amp;x=0&amp;y=0&amp;aspect=basic_search">The Robber Bridegroom</a>, a steamy and chaotic story set during her home state&rsquo;s antebellum years. Although loosely based on a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, this Robber Bridegroom is no murderous Bluebeard. Jamie Lockhart is, however, a handsome scoundrel with no more compunction against relieving pretty ladies of their virtue than their jewels.&nbsp;He meets his match in beautiful Rosamond Musgrove, who goes on everyday errands wearing her one silk gown while singing love ballads.</p>
<div><b>The Robber Bridegroom</b> is the kind of yarn that gifted story-spinners can make out of loose threads of myth and folk tale wound together with a peculiar variety of language-rich Southern humor. She somehow binds together a jealous and mildly-murderous stepmother, a band of untrustworthy robbers (imagine that!), true love&mdash;with flaws, and raucous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Fink">Mike Fink</a>, legendary bully and &ldquo;King of the Keel-boaters.&rdquo; &nbsp;The story is larger than life&mdash;a fantasy, really&mdash;and made it onto the Broadway stage as a musical in the 1970s. It&rsquo;s still showing <a href="http://www.mtishowspace.com/mod/shows/mtishow.php?showid=000090">on the playbills</a> of colleges and dinner theaters around the country.</div>
</div></div></div>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:04:30 +0000vjohnson8190 at http://www.librarypoint.orgA Painted House by John Grishamhttp://www.librarypoint.org/painted_houses_grisham
<div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/180">Virginia Johnson</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2677">Historical Fiction</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/98">Farm Life</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/356">1950s</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/443">Coming of Age</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/668">Migrant Labor</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2491">Southern Literature</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2732">Southern gothic</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2733">Arkansas</a></li></ul></div><div class="terms clearfix"><ul class="taxonomy-list"><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/28">LibraryPoint Blog</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/2671">Shelf Life Blog</a></li><li><a href="/taxonomy/term/29">Reading Room Blog</a></li></ul></div><div class="field field-name-field-blog-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://www.librarypoint.org/sites/librarypoint.org/files/imagecache/painted_house.jpg" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Rural 1950s Arkansas is the setting for John Grisham&rsquo;s Southern thriller, <a href="http://ipac.librarypoint.org/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=remote&amp;menu=search&amp;aspect=basic_search&amp;index=.GW&amp;term=painted+house+grisham&amp;session=12L13D87U2731.9967&amp;return_results=true#focus">A Painted House</a>.&nbsp;It&rsquo;s the beginning of a summer full of sweltering days, acres of cotton to pick, dangerous desire, and deadly secrets to keep.&nbsp;</p>
<div>This season--at its start the same as every other--finds the Chandler family on the road in their dusty pick-up looking for migrant workers to hire. Young Lucas is certain from what he has observed in his short life that once the season&rsquo;s work is done, his family will go back to its quiet ways, sitting through another winter, readying for another spring planting with Grandpa, &ldquo;Pappy&rdquo; Chandler, heading the household.</div>
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<div>Lucas&rsquo; family has worked the land for generations, and this summer&rsquo;s batches of migrant help&mdash;Mexicans and hill people--will work alongside them to bring in the crop before the weather destroys their chance to make a little profit on the farm or at least get further out of debt. Lucas expects the workers to come stay for a few months, do their assigned work, and then go their way&mdash;never leaving a lasting impression on his family and their way of life.</div>
</div></div></div>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:05:18 +0000vjohnson7926 at http://www.librarypoint.org